One of my Colleagues need question regarding Azure
I also wanted to ask you about an update that Microsoft recently released with respect to ADAL
We were trying to understand how this would impact our product.
1. Below is my understanding about this and I wanted to confirm with you that my understanding about it is correct.
From what I infer, it is about supporting single sign-on passive authentication (browser-based authentication) for Office 2013 using Azure (I.e., ADAL) or ADFS SAML identity provider. Office 2013 comes in different editions and one of the editions is subscription based available through Microsoft Office 365 (a.k.a Office Web Apps). #2 from the web link says the following.
"Prior to ADAL based authentication, the Office 2013 client sign in flow (using the Microsoft Online Sign-In Assistant) required the WS-Trust protocol for users to sign in. Identity providers that use the SAML-P 2.0 protocol often do not also support WS-Trust and this prevented federated users from signing in to their Office 2013 client applications. With the ADAL based authentication flows, users can sign in to Office client applications even when using an identity provider that uses SAML-P 2.0. "
To simply put it, providing single sign-on for Microsoft Office 365 web clients using ADAL. Office 365web clients can use one of these as SAML identity providers.
- ADAL
- ADFS
- Or any other SAML identity provider
2. Also, please let us know how different is Office 2013 client from our traditional office client.